Peterson Tech, LLCCo-president | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Jan 2005–PresentEmploy analytical aptitude in conducting blockchain and cryptocurrency research including algorithms, decentralization, languages, cryptography, and methodologies to promote fairness in mining practices while minimizing power consumption and system resources used to maintain altcoin blockchains.Use skills, experience, and insights to recreate Piece Builder™ as an open source project providing the community with an extendable easy-to-configure/easy-to-use content management system (CMS) with integrated PayPal Payments and Let’s Encrypt SSL manager.Career Highlights:Introduced the company from the ground up including business plan, marketing, and client relations.Developed Piece Builder™ allowing clients to create, test, and deploy websites allowing the company to capitalize on code reuse, write it once, and deploy to various customers.Conceived and created a PHP form elements library to generate and return HTML form elements, resulting in simplified software and eliminating the need to repeat similar forms constructs.Steered efforts in completing end-user documentation for electronic commerce tools providing users libraries of documents instructional videos.Applied strategic approach in fulfilling the following:Innovation of Piece Builder™ using PHP, MySQL, HTML, XHTML, CSS, CKEditor, Apache, Paint Shop Pro, and PayPal Standard Payments to automatically generate static websites for clients, making web design, and creation simple; andOptimization of client’s online eBusiness presence, which led to revenue growth and expansion of third-party integration of PayPal’s Payment Standard System.

Director of SkedFlex, Eagle, ID Oct 2014–Feb 2017Lead five software engineers and three test engineers while formulating a plan of action, task breakdown, and delegation to designate responsibilities in areas of everyone’s interests, leading to enhanced team member satisfaction.Assumed full accountability in hiring a full-time engineer to assist in attaining company goals, three part-time interns to write SkedFlex software, and two interns automate SkedFlex testing.Continuously developed and expanded all SkedFlex rules engine software to determine crew schedule compliance for FAA regulations, 117 (+augmented), 121 (+augmented), 121S, 135, and 91 expanding software capabilities enabling greater support for FAA regulation compliance.Career Highlights:Provided progress and status transparency for tasks by effectively created a hybrid agile SDLC utilized by the development team and testers to unify the SLDC by taking notice of short falls in the current process.Capitalized on industry experience to create a three-stage development methodology and custom bash scripts to control the change flow; promoting server stability, while allowing continuous development of SkedFlex leveraging the latest software changes.

Software Engineer | Software Developer, Boise, ID Oct 2011–Oct 2014Aided in hiring an agile consultant to assist the organization with an agile SDLC paving the way to the formulation of agile methodology utilizing Redmine Backlogs to manage software development.Developed new architecture for a complex crew scheduling page that allowed drag and drop scheduling circumventing server calls for unattainable schedule changes.Streamlined Schedule Planner data extraction joining multiple data tables, indexing queries, and data aggregation.Carried out improvements, bug fixes, and rules creation for all FAA regulations used to identify crew member legalities.Took full charge of executing the following initiatives:REST interface between SkedFlex and Rockwell Collins FOS application to send and receive flight and crew information between SkedFlex and FOS; andTwo event triggered SOAP interfaces between SkedFlex and two third party vendors (FDS, Alaska Airlines).Career Highlights:Initiated code consolidation strategy, along with similar code in various locations of the application were consolidated to eliminate duplication leading to a coding consolidation strategy promoting code reuse and reducing code base size.Used concepts created in Piece Builder™ to develop class libraries of commonly used HTML form elements using PHP, jQuery, and Smarty; enabling engineers to instantiate the input type of class, pass in class attributes to use as the key and value, class name for the element, and a form element index that was used as the form element id.Formulated a training plan for the company that was submitted to the State of Idaho for a grant to train existing and retrain new employees, subsequently earning the company a $78K grant for employee training.

Manpower Professional, Boise, ID (Nov 2006–Oct 2011)Software Engineer III (Client: Hewlett-Packard (HP) Nov 2010–Oct 2011Displayed competency in architecture and development of professional applications, installers, and web solutions to support teams, wherein utilities are used in gathering data, troubleshooting, and developing dynamic HTML for a worldwide authentication solution.Career Highlight:Demonstrated skills in developing the following:Firmware for microelectronic communications over the I2C bus in C and C++;Offer Maker to create and handle dynamic HTML for a worldwide application distributed by HP;Authenticator, a forms data collection and authentication troubleshooting utility;Data Miner, a forms data collection utility for management reports creation of authentication data; andSAMT Visualizer, a forms data analysis utility to assess and troubleshoot hardware and firmware.

Software Engineer III | Requirements Engineering Team Lead Jan 2010–Nov 2010Partnered with key team members to define new requirements processes, design tools used for processes, and conceptualize process improvements.Created process and documentation management schema in SharePoint, Quality Center, and Caliber RM simplifying directives for team activities, task priorities, and workflow operations for the requirements team.Demonstrated skills in writing C# software tools to support program needs including data extraction and analysis; as well as CSS, DHTML, and CAPTCHA to support HP rewards.Generated a printer support matrix by aiding in XML construction and validation as well as supporting partners in charge of executing features developed by the cartridge business team.Applied web design techniques using CSS and HTML to lessen the SureSupply Privacy Page implementation from 39 to 2 images and install size from 6 MB to 180 KB while creating a script that generates 39 localized language configurations.Organized team discussions to elicit requirement constraints from partners, review requirements, and provide feedback to stakeholders.Generated quality functional requirements documents with an appropriate level of technical detail to reduce implementation risk and time completion while optimizing solution flexibility.Career Highlights:Creatively conceptualized a web application to convert hexadecimal pen IDs for ink products to marketing pen IDs, which simplified test efforts for the HP test team in India.Evaluated and formulated new processes to lessen overall effort to oversee requirements and streamline efficiency.Modified the requirements management process to execute more robust version control and requirements traceability and escalate project success.Obtained a promotion from the requirements engineering team lead for exceptional work performance.

Requirements Engineering Team Lead (Client: Hewlett-Packard) Dec 2007–Jan 2010Held responsibility in coordinating and providing support to two program teams for requirements analysis and activities.Teamed up with program managers to guarantee attainment of key deliverables and project completion on time and on budget.Functioned as consultant regarding user interface (UI) design for several software programs.Career Highlights:Optimized requirements management process, which led to successful project delivery.Minimized the number of requirements support staff from five to two engineers; resulting in more efficient operations.Organized and drafted a setup instruction guide for MediaWiki with Apache, Apache James, PHP 5.2.1, and MySQL.Designed a prototype link tool that served as a central repository for Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) using JavaScript, PHP, CSS, XHTML, and MySQL; Windows forms application used worldwide in managing dynamic HTML; several web interfaces to address business issues related to broken links; as well as document repository while reducing page volumes.